Eoin O'Duffy

Eoin O'Duffy (30 October 1892-30 November 1944) was a Teachta Dala from County Monaghan from 24 May 1921 to 27 August 1923. O'Duffy was once the Garda Siochana commissioner, an IRA commander, and a founder of the Fine Gael party, and he founded the fascist National Corporate Party in 1934 and supported Spain and Nazi Germany.

Biography
Eoin O'Duffy was born in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, Ireland in 1892, and he worked as an engineer and architect before the Irish War of Independence broke out in 1919. O'Duffy became an Irish Republican Army leader, and he led the 2nd Northern Division in 1921. In 1922, he became IRA Chief-of-Staff, and he supported the peace treaty with the British government, joining the conservative Fine Gael party. O'Duffy served as Commissioner of the Garda Siochana police force from 1922 to 1933, when Fianna Fail Taoiseach Eamon de Valera dismissed him. He would later found the National Corporate Party during the 1930s, and he encouraged Irish volunteers to fight for the Falange party during the Spanish Civil War and attempted to form an Irish brigade to assist Nazi Germany in Operation Barbarossa during World War II. O'Duffy died in 1944 at the age of 52.